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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her | |
death, it’s coming out | |
By Associated Press | |
Updated: | |
2:29 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2025 | |
Source: AP | |
A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s | |
most prominent accusers, , will be published this fall, publishing | |
house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday. | |
“Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for | |
Justice” is scheduled for release October 21, the publisher confirmed | |
to The Associated Press. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age | |
41, had been working on “Nobody’s Girl” with author-journalist | |
Amy Wallace and had completed the manuscript for the 400-page book, | |
according to Knopf. | |
The publisher’s statement includes an email from Giuffre to Wallace a | |
few weeks before her death, saying that it was her “heartfelt wish” | |
the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances. | |
“The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the | |
systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals | |
across borders,” the email reads. “It is imperative that the truth | |
is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, | |
both for the sake of justice and awareness.” | |
Giuffre had been hospitalized following a serious accident March 24, | |
Knopf said, and sent the email April 1. She died April 25. | |
“In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that NOBODY’S | |
GIRL is still released. I believe it has the potential to impact many | |
lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices,” | |
she wrote to Wallace. | |
In 2023, the New York Post had reported that Giuffre had reached a deal | |
“believed to be worth millions” with an undisclosed publisher. | |
Knopf spokesperson Todd Doughty said that she initially agreed to a | |
seven-figure contract with Penguin Press, but moved with acquiring | |
editor Emily Cunningham after Knopf hired Cunningham as executive | |
editor last year. | |
Giuffre had stated often that, in the early 2000s, when she was a | |
teenager, she was caught up in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring and | |
exploited by Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men. | |
Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what | |
investigators described as a suicide. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine | |
Maxwell, was convicted in late 2021 on sex trafficking and other | |
charges. | |
Giuffre’s allegations. In 2022, Giuffre and Andrew after she had sued | |
him for sexual assault. | |
Giuffre’s name has continued to appear in headlines, even after her | |
death. In July, President Donald Trump told reporters that Epstein his | |
private club in Florida where she once worked. She had alleged being | |
approached by Maxwell and hired as a masseuse for Epstein. Maxwell has | |
denied Giuffre’s allegations. | |
Doughty declined to provide details about the Epstein associates | |
featured in “Nobody’s Girl,” but confirmed that Giuffre made | |
“no allegations of abuse against Trump,” about Epstein, the | |
disgraced financier and his former friend. | |
Knopf’s statement says the book contains “intimate, disturbing, and | |
heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, Maxwell and | |
their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew, about whom she | |
speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court settlement | |
in 2022.” Knopf publisher and editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin, in a | |
statement, called “Nobody’s Girl” a “raw and shocking” | |
journey and “the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break | |
free.” | |
Giuffre’s time with Epstein is well documented, although her accounts | |
have been challenged. She had acknowledged getting details wrong, | |
errors she attributed to trying to recall events from years ago. In | |
2022, she dropped allegations against Alan Dershowitz, saying in a | |
statement at the time that she may “have made a mistake in | |
identifying” the famed attorney as an abuser. | |
“‘Nobody’s Girl’ was both vigorously fact-checked and legally | |
vetted,” a Knopf statement reads. | |
Giuffre’s co-author on her memoir, Wallace, is an award-winning | |
magazine and newspaper reporter whose work has appeared in The New York | |
Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She has also | |
collaborated on two previous books, Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s | |
“Creativity, Inc.” and former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt’s | |
“Hot Seat.” | |
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